>>>>See attached image
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>>>I hope the parallels to Katrina stop here. Katrina wasn't thought to be all that outrageous until it neared landfall. And even then it was just a strong hurricane, no huge deal by Gulf Coast standards, until the levees broke. Then we all learned NOLA is a bowl below sea level, situated between two huge bodies of water.
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>>This one is a CAT 1 and not that strong of storm surge so they should be alright- this time. Tell ya what though - that has to the one of the dumbest places in the USA to put a city - personally I wouldn't of opted to rebuild it.
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>The biggest problem is that it expanded into areas it couldn't have expanded in pre-levee system. The older parts of New Orleans never flooded.

Heard on the news today (repeated in this link) Eleven massive, 5,700-horsepower engines can pump about nine million gallons of water per hour. Put another way, the engines could fill up an Olympic-sized swimming pool in less than five seconds.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57501330/bigger-and-stronger-new-orleans-confident-for-isaac/

Damn!